COLONIE — The Senate will vote on a bill that would impose a two-percent cap on increases to the property tax levies of local governments and school districts, its leader said.

Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Long Island, said a “program bill” was introduced late Friday evening by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and will be voted on during session Monday afternoon.

“I feel great about it,” Skelos said Sunday evening before a panel discussion at the Conservative Party Political Action Conference. “We have stated for the last two years that we’re going to pass the cap and we’re fulfilling our commitment to the voters.”

The measure is expected to pass that house. Republicans have a 32-vote bloc in the chamber, but many Democrats support the cap measure as well. A renegade quartet of Democrats led by Sen. Jeff Klein has also committed to vote for the proposal, as have many other Democrats, including Minority Leader John Sampson. Similar bills have twice passed the Senate.

But they have gone nowhere in the Assembly. Speaker Sheldon Silver earlier this month announced his support for some type of property tax relief, but he has refused to commit to Cuomo’s proposal, presented during his campaign in both speeches and policy books before it was codified into a bill Friday. Several members of his conference — dominated by members from New York City, where property taxes are less of an everyday concern than in suburban and rural areas — have said they would like to see other measures linked to a straight cap.

“That would not be my preference,” Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, D-Manhattan, said. “I think if you’re going to restrict property taxes, a circuit breaker method linked to income would make more sense.”

Cuomo will brief Skelos, Silver and other legislative leaders Monday evening at the Executive Mansion. He will publicly announce details of his 2010-11 budget Tuesday afternoon. Publicly, the agendas of Cuomo and Skelos have been surprisingly in sync for men from opposite political parties. Expect Republican senators — and, perhaps, Cuomo — to paint Assembly Democrats as obstructionists if they fail to act on the cap, which polls show is supported by a majority of New Yorkers.

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